Beta Start8 Button creation tool

Create your own buttons easily

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We have created a tool to make it easier to make your own start buttons as we know it can be hard to line up all the subframes, resize images correctly and then apply it.  The tool also makes it easy to simply use a single image and have the mouseover and pressed states created for you (Start8 1.3 and higher required).

Download it from here : https://stardock.cachefly.net/Start8BtnEditor.zip

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

I checked Automatically create mouseover and pressed states for me and picked a source file and saved the image as a different file name but it still modded my original source file. I said Yes to automatically resize it for optimal taskbar resizing and now my original source PNG is gone :( even if I saved it as a different file name. Not a big problem as I have backup of original but just thought it might be a bug or something. My original was named Flower_x1.jpg because I thought adding x1 would do it automatically earlier with Start8 1.3.

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

I am going to assume by .jpg you mean .png.

Did you perhaps try to save your file as flower.png in the same directory?  If so that's the issue as the tool automatically adds the _X1.png bit when you have told it to automatically create the other states as they are created by Start8 based on filename.

Siege of Centauri
Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

That's right I meant PNG and I tried to save in the same directory but gave it a different name. It went ahead and overwrote my original file anyways. But it's okay I know now what it does.